Black History

The DiMenna-Nyselius Library has an extensive collection of material to support research in the areas of African American history, the civil rights movement in America, race relations and other topics of special interest during Black History Month.

Vivian Malone, one of the first African Americans to attend the University of Alabama, walks through a crowd that includes National Guard members and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in 1963. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

We invite you to explore our collection, stopping by the Library to see selected material displayed in the interior lobby on the main floor. Libray staff have selected material which they found personally meaningful to them.

The Library staff also recommends the following online sources:

‌Harlem: 1900-1940 - An African American Community
an exhibition portfolio by by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

If you are replicating any of our guides as a template on your own site for use by your library's LibGuide authors, we would appreciate a brief attribution, e.g "Portions of this guide were built using suggestions from DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University.”